04-06-2026, 05:39 AM
Stars on a Field
Stand your ground, America, live your legend:
closed frontier of forty-eight, full, sufficient
for this world’s great wars and alarums, stars of
white and stars golden.
Continental, don’t spread incontinently–
precious, well-earned liberty’s yours to have and
hold, not hector foreigners with their own firm
notions of being.
Has time come now for a return to your wild
life of bold frontiering and conquest? No more
land remains but high above stars still beckon–
stars of white fire.
Stand your ground, America, live your legend:
closed frontier of forty-eight, full, sufficient
for this world’s great wars and alarums, stars of
white and stars golden.
Continental, don’t spread incontinently–
precious, well-earned liberty’s yours to have and
hold, not hector foreigners with their own firm
notions of being.
Has time come now for a return to your wild
life of bold frontiering and conquest? No more
land remains but high above stars still beckon–
stars of white fire.
Non-practicing atheist